After completing the payoff period of the RER-project the net cost of electrical energy generated by RER-based sources decreases sharply, as in most alternative energy technologies there is no fuel constituent. The installed capacity of RES generation in the world (without large HPPs) reached 390 GW by 2011, satisfying 8.2% of global electrical energy demand. […]

Within the framework of the investment program of the geothermal power plants of OAO Geotherm the A-2 hole was reconstructed, a new hole Geo 2 was bored and commissioned, the two vacuum liquid-packed ring pumps were replaced. With the aim of raising the efficiency of the air condenser unit the work has been started on […]

RusHydro Group, which owns the blocking holding of shares of OAO “Krasnoyarskaya HPP” is to obtain 500 million rubles as dividends summing up the results of 2011 from their investment into the shares of the company. In compliance with the decision of the annual general meeting of shareholders of OAO “Krasnoyarskaya HPP”, which took place […]

The Energy Ministry of the Russian Federation, RusHydro and Rosimushchestvo (the Federal Property Management Agency) took a decision to make additional investment into the extension of the Gotsatlinskaya hydro power plant in Dagestan. It has been decided to allocate for the construction of the hydro power plant about 1.5 billion rubles (the exact amount is […]

The inappropriate operation of Cheboksary Hydroelectric Power Plant threatens underflooding in the Volga region – the operation of the power plant above the designed mark of the dam lake may cause flooding of all the objects down the river. The village of Kokshaisk (the Republic of Marii El) is in a particularly dangerous situation: it […]

The hydro power plants situated in different corners of Russia are preparing for one of the most difficult periods in their work – the spring flood period. Novoskienergetiki.ru report that the first ones to face the ‘big water’ this year are the hydro power plants of the Volzhsko-Kamskiy Cascade. It is this Cascade of HPPs […]

OAO RusHydro commissioned the seventh hydroelectric generating set of the Novosibirskaya hydro power plant after the capital overhaul, the hydro-generating company reports. As the press-release says that the overhaul of the hydroelectric set was made within the framework of the program of preparation towards the spring flood, which was started at the Novosibirskaya hydro power […]

OAO RusHydro put in operation the fourth hydroelectric set of the Chirkeyskaya HPP in Dagestan, the company’s press-release says. In the course of 8-month repair works at the hydroelectric set with the installed capacity of 250 MW the power transformer was fixed, the impeller and the rotor were rolled out, the turbine cover holder was […]

ОАО Federal Hydrogenerating company RusHydro bought 27.21% of OAO Yakutskenergo shares. This is announced in the statement of RusHydro, the press-service of which refused to name the source of obtaining the batch of shares. Presumably the shares used to belong to two Cyprus off-shore companies Madake Enterprises Company Limited and Donalink Limited, the beneficiaries of […]

Upper Subansiri is to be constructed as a barrage power station – this solution suggested by the experts of Institute Hydroproject (OAO Rushydro) was taken at the seventh coordination meeting in the city of Hyderabad (India), in which both the management of the Indian company KSK Energy Ventures Limited and the representatives of the project […]